The Kosciusko School Board is edging closer to a decision on who it will hire as the new city superintendent.
“We hope to have a decision next week,” said Board President Dr. Kenneth Quick on Tuesday.
The board held a special meeting May 30 with members of a Community Committee it had appointed to help them in the search process.
Since it pertained to personnel issues, most of that meeting was conducted in executive session, but board members updated The Star-Herald following the meeting..
“We met with the Community Committee and they gave us a short list,” said Quick at the time. “We hope we’ll proceed to go through those and hope in the next couple of weeks to narrow it down to the point where we have an answer.”
Board members said the involvement of the Community Committee has helped move the process forward rapidly.
Prior to the executive session, board member Randy Fuller thanked the committee members.
“To you all, thank you,” he said. “You put things on fast forward and made this work for us.”
Following that executive session, board members again noted the value of the Community Committee.
“The committee was great. We really appreciate all the time it took for them to help us,” said board member Jenny Jones.
Since that night, the board has been reviewing the short list and all other information it has available.
When contacted Tuesday, Quick said the board had conducted one in-person interview Friday with a candidate from the short list and it is now considering which other candidates might be interviewed prior to a final decision.
“We’ve gone through that short list and interviewed one candidate already, and we’re looking at the others,” he said.
